Since Easter moves around there are a number of March and April birthdays that can land on it from time to time.  This year it was one of my coworkers, Jill.  She turned 21 today, so since we are actually closed Easter Sunday she wanted to go out at midnight.

I closed the store, which meant working a little past midnight, but I agreed to meet her.  Sean and I went once I got home and had a great time with Jill and her mom and some other friends & relatives of Jill's at a local bar.  One of our previous store managers (who happened to also work the closing shift at his current store, so he was even a bit later than me at showing up) ending up coming as well.

We had a great time really.

I am sure Jill will remember her 21st birthday which is really thr point in the end.

Well Aria did not make it to Nationals so no Disney World for us

She did have fun though and learned a lot over the past three years in Math Counts, especially this year making it to States.  She learned that when we told her she should be studying more we weren't kidding.  Those kids pour all they got into it.  One of her team mates made the PA team for Nationals though.

So, since there is no Math League in the high school that is my project now, I already e-mailed all the high school math teachers to see if we can get one started for next year.  When I showed Aria how math league works she figures she may have a better chance with that.  As do I, cause it is all tests and tests she does really well on.  No buzzing in count down rounds.

Of course I told Aria he high school mission is to get them to do Chess as the Spring Musical one of the years she is there

So, Giant is making a new shrink video (lessons about how to prevent profit losses).

They made it this morning at our store and asked for volunteers to be in it.  Not only did it mean a couple extra hours of work to add to the pay check but they said we would be a $25 gift card as well.  So I said sure

They had a skit where the cashier didn't check the bottom of the cart, one where the cashier didn't know the PLUs for fruits and veggies, one where the cashier activiated gift cards and the customer walked away with them wothout paying (by giving back different gift cards), and one where the cashier was tricked by a quick change artist.

I played the cashier with the bottom of the cart issue and the one tricked by the quick change artist.  I was also the customer that stole the gift cards.  There was a nother part where my manager showed me with the security camera about the dog food I missed.

All in all it was a lot of fun really.  And then I used my gift card (the one they gave me) to get Callisto's birthday snack for school tomorrow.

Good movie from my childhood

You know what line I find really annoying though?

Andy: I can't tell... if it's an A sharp or if it's a B flat!
Mikey: Heh, if you hit the wrong note, we'll all B flat!

OK, it works cause of the being flat part, but an A sharp is the same note on the piano as the B flat.

Well, yesterday I was supposed to have my parent-teacher conference for my little one at 8am.  Around 6:30am my phone rings, luckily Aria is awake since her bus comes at 7am and she answered.  It was Callie's teacher calling to cancel because he was home with a sick kid of his own.

Today I went to the school to be a witness as they try and break the world record for similtaneously reading something.  Today being Lincolns birthday Lincoln's Presidential Library set this up for a similataneous reading of the Gettysburg Address.  South Hanover Elementary added a little over 200 to other people reading it across the country this morning.

Luckily afterward Callie's class had library so Mr Rossi and I did her parent-teacher conference.  It went really well.  He is going to help me get officially diagnosed (well tested, but he agrees with me that it will most likely lead to diagnosis) for dyslexia and I voiced my concerns for 6th grade.  She will be switching teachers which means it will be more difficult for them to see who she really is.  So we want to make sure she is placed coreectly and that she has a good working IEP in place as well.

All in all everything went really well.

Course, then I had to drive by the middle school to drop off paperwork that Aria left this morning and that had to be in today since they are off tomorrow...